Hi all

I have been following this thread with interest. I agree entirely with Robert Snape. Yes we are all seduced by the power and potential of the internet and the new media. There was a Medical/Health media workshop here in Sydney recently at which we were told that books, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV were all so passé; we needed to learn to get our messages out via Twitter and Facebook!

How available is the internet and the new media in the majority world, when electricity and infrastructure cannot be guaranteed. Even in India where there are more IT professionals than anywhere else and there is such an obvious and visible IT presence; the poor have very little access to computers. Mobile phones on the other hand...! I agree that we should lobby publishers and authors to make this information vastly more available and useful. Any tips on how to do this would be useful.

I know that medical students and health professionals visiting the majority world are often urged to take along their old text books and journals. How useful is this practice really for people on the ground at the receiving end?

Shanti Raman
Area Community Paediatrician-Child Protection
Sydney South West Area Health Service
Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Dept of Community Paediatrics, Locked Mail Bag 7017
Liverpool BC 1871, Australia
Mob: +61 434 328 011 Tel: + 61 2 9378 1331 (Tuesdays)

HIFA2015 profile: Shanti Raman is Medical Director-Child Protection, Sydney South West Area Health Service, Australia. Professional interests include Child Rights, International health: Maternal & Child Health, Poverty and child health, Health of culturally diverse populations/ethnic minorities, and Child public health. shanti.raman AT sswahs.nsw.gov.au

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From: Jackie Snape lrpp AT btconnect.com
Sent: Thu 5/11/2009 8:42 a.m.
To: HIFA2015 - Healthcare Information For All by 2015
Subject: [HIFA2015] eBooks (13)

What a fabulous comment! Exactly, how much profit from sales is there in the localities which most need the help? (Rhetorical question)

Jackie Snape Physio Wickford Essex

HIFA2015 profile: Jackie Snape is a physiotherapist at The London Road Physiotherapy Practice, Wickford, Essex, SS12 OAN, UK. (Private Practice) lrpp@btconnect.com

posted 04 November 2009 by Shanti Raman from email